by MarktheAuthor | Dec 6, 2025 | Fiction, Novels, Private Investigator, Process, Serialized, Writing
Your Father’s Son Feeble illumination from a lone bulb flickered above thirty feet of dark mahogany, giving the deeply polished wood of the Montana Bar a reverent glow. Rows of bottled spirits trembled with the electric energy of the back bar lights. An odor of...
by MarktheAuthor | Nov 26, 2025 | Fiction, Novels, Private Investigator, Process, Serialized, Writing
An Unfortunate Uncertainty “Are you going to take a blasted minute?” Mother’s voice blew past like a northern wind, rattling the gates in the stockyard next door. A few desperate cows bound for the slaughterhouse bellowed. Johnny rattled away in the battered F-250,...
by MarktheAuthor | Nov 21, 2025 | Fiction, Novels, Private Investigator, Process, Serialized, Writing
Legacy Double Trouble Johnny Horton Martin hopped out of the pickup with the energy of a teenager. I stepped out to greet him, the big chalky sky of late November embracing me with a chilly promise. Johnny narrowed his eyes and offered me a disarming grin. “You come...
by MarktheAuthor | Nov 21, 2025 | Fiction, Novels, Private Investigator, Process, Serialized, Writing
Dilemma of Duties The Nokia slipped free as I checked for signal bars. Its first contact with the motor snapped it shut. The compact black brick bounced through the engine compartment with the energy of a pinball. My hand chased it halfway through the power labyrinth...
by MarktheAuthor | Nov 14, 2025 | Private Investigator, Process, Serialized, Writing
Beginnings are impossible. I’ve been starting the author game for 20-plus years. It rarely appears as work in progress. Fits and starts. That’s my record. Fits lead to starts/restarts lead to fits, ad nauseam. Time to stop beginning and advance. Accept my invitation...
by MarktheAuthor | Sep 19, 2025 | Life, Personal, Process, Writing
A Portent Of Trouble “I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.” —...
